Re: rdma-core: Add support for multicast loopback prevention to mckey

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 02:36:48PM +0100, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The rdma_create_qp createflags option IBV_QP_CREATE_BLOCK_SELF_MCAST_LB
> should prevent multicast loopback. However, this feature seems to be
> broken on a lot of RDMA NICs and there is no way to test this with the
> existing RDMA tools. So add an option to mckey in order to allow to send
> multicast messages without loopback. mckey's default has been and will
> continue to be to loopback all multicast messages.
> 
> Loopback of multicast messages can have surprising effects because all
> messages sent out also have to be processed locally by all members of
> the multicast group. This usually also includes the sender.
> 
> In order to test multicast loop execute the following in two windows
> on a host connected to an RDMA fabric.
> 
> First session (Receiver)
> 
> 	mckey -b <RDMA IP address> -m239.1.2.1
> 
> Second session (Sender)
> 
> 	mckey -b <RDMA IP address> -m239.1.2.2 -s -l
> 
> 
> The sender will send 10 messages and the receiver will terminate
> after 10 messages have been received.
> 
> If loopback prevention would work then the receiver should only
> terminate on its own when the -l option has not been specified.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>

Christoph,

How can I apply your patch? Can you send it as a PR to rdma-core github?

Thanks